Re: why doesn't shutdown work ??

[Frank M. <be...@vi...>]

On Sat, 29 May 2010 00:12:50 +0530
"J. Bakshi" <bak...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:26:46 -0400
> Frank McCormick <be...@vi...> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 May 2010 22:29:21 +0530
> > "J. Bakshi" <bak...@gm...> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:29:02 +0530
> > > MohanSai <k_m...@ya...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Bakshi! 
> > > > i'm not an expert at linux. there are two inittab files on my
> > > > ubuntu system. 
> > > > 1) /etc/inittab
> > > > 2) /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab
> > > > which file needs to be appended with the line you mentioned?
> > > > "shutdown -a /etc/shutdown.allow"
> > > > could you specify which file ? 
> > > > Also, will this also work for reboot and how about locking the
> > > > system.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > My box is based on debian. Generally /etc/inittab is the file
> > > where all this modification can be done. Even in rpm based
> > > distro. So it should be the same in ubuntu which is also based
> > > on debian
> > > 
> > 
> >   I tried it on my box (Debian testing) and all I got was an error
> > message saying tags can only be 4 characters long. (Line added
> > to /etc/inittab)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> How the entry look like ?
> 
> It should be
> 
> ````````````
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -a -t3 -r now
> ```````````````````````
> 
> Create a file named shutdown.allow in /etc. The shutdown.allow file
> should list the usernames of any users who are allowed to shutdown
> the system using Ctrl-Alt-Del . The format of the shutdown.allow
> file is a list of usernames, one per line
> 
> Please check if this helps.


But this was the original suggestion which doesn't work obviously.

> Modify inittab with 
> 
> `  `   `   `
> shutdown -a /etc/shutdown.allow
> 

I will try the new one. Thanks


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Frank<be...@vi...>